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[strangebrewer]

Contamination in a 32% beer?

[EWW]

linkification

[thedisappearer]

I read somewhere (Beer Advocate?) that something already surpassed TNP's alcohol content.

[Mya]

from the same brewery as TNP41 farking percent82 proof IIIIPA, going a little over board boyz?

[toonces]

i almost had some of this friday. rare beer tour in chicago. they ran out before i could get there. the 18% tokio is pretty good, though.

[HarvInSTL]

i almost had some of this friday. rare beer tour in chicago. they ran out before i could get there. the 18% tokio is pretty good, though.

This!

[Tim the Enchanter]

These guys are apparently importing their ice beer here. I know it is illegal for home brewers to do this because it counts as distillation. I wonder if they'll have to sell it in liquor stores. linky pooCliff's Notes:

In November, BrewDog, a three-year-old Scottish microbrewery, released a new brand, dubbed Tactical Nuclear Penguin. The beer set a new record by weighing in at a scary 32% alcohol by volume (ABV), more than six times the strength of familiar domestic brands like Budweiser. As explained in a cheeky video on the company's website (warning: the clip contains simulated penguin sex), the brewery was able to attain the high alcohol content by freezing the beer at a local ice cream factory, at temperatures as low as -6°C (21°F), for 21 days. Alcohol freezes at lower temperatures than water, and removing water from the solution increased the alcohol concentration.

In December, BrewDog received a slap on the wrist from a British alcohol regulatory body, the Portman Group, which ordered that retailers pull the company's 18.2% Tokyo beer brand off shelves because of its marketing tactics. A note on the Tokyo label says, "It is all about moderation. Everything in moderation, including moderation itself. What logically follows is that you must, from time, have excess. This beer is for those times." After the beer was pulled, BrewDog came out with a 1.1% ABV brew meant to tame the critics. Its name: Nanny State.

The drinking games continued in February when a German brewer, Schorschbrau, released a 40% ABV beer called Schorschbock. The BrewDog boys fired back a few weeks later with high-octane concoction Sink the Bismarck!, which checks in at 41%, enough to reclaim the "world's strongest beer" mantle (the name is a not-so-subtle reference to the famous German battleship deployed during World War II).

[toonces]

wait for it...and i've had brewdog's tokio, 18%. very smoooooooth.

[HokieTrismegistus]

Now just age it in a Macallan cask, and I'll be set for life.

[No Party JKor]

Lame.

[CaptRon]

Has anyone here tried the ice technique to be able to comment about how it turned out? I've thought about making a Barleywine and trying this with it.

[stellarbrew]

After the beer was pulled, BrewDog came out with a 1.1% ABV brew meant to tame the critics. Its name: Nanny State.

That's pretty funny

[strangebrewer]

Has anyone here tried the ice technique to be able to comment about how it turned out? I've thought about making a Barleywine and trying this with it.

I did this unintentional once. Seriously. It was a regular IPA and I had my Sanyo set to low. I couldn't figure out why the pints off that beer were jackin me up until the keg kicked and I thought wow I went through that FAST. I pulled the keg out a couple days later and it weight more than it should. I popped the top and found a honeycomb of ice inside. Oops.No science involved.

[CaptRon]

I did this unintentional once. Seriously. It was a regular IPA and I had my Sanyo set to low. I couldn't figure out why the pints off that beer were jackin me up until the keg kicked and I thought wow I went through that FAST. I pulled the keg out a couple days later and it weight more than it should. I popped the top and found a honeycomb of ice inside. Oops.No science involved.

That would be freakin awesome! lol